PC Perspective Halloween Hardware Giveaway - Brought to you by Corsair and Gigabyte

UPDATE: We have our winner!! I would like to introduce you to...The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race!

There quite a few excellent entries in both photo and video form, but this was far and away the favorite of the PC Perspective voting staff. If you would like to see some of our other favorite entries, just click here and scroll to the bottom. Thanks to everyone who participated and made our holiday at PC Perspective a humorous one. :)

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If there is one holiday that I find myself getting more and more attached to as I get older, it is definitely Halloween. The opportunity to dress up like a fool and (legally) scare children and adults in your neighborhood is an occasion that should not be missed! :)

To celebrate this wonderful time of year, PC Perspective has teamed up with our friends at Corsair and Gigabyte to giveaway a collection of hardware that just about anyone would be envious of. Here is what is up for grabs:

That's more than enough hardware to get anyone started on a killer gaming rig. Just add in your Intel Core i7/i5 Haswell processor, an AMD Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce graphics card and your off and running! Maybe a Zotac GeForce card would fit the bill to maintain the orange/black theme? Total estimated value of this hardware is over $830!!

So how do you enter? We have a few ways, but you are going to have to get creative for this one. We are looking for PC Perspective readers that are able to express their nerdom and hardware fanaticism in costume form. What kind of crazy costumes do you have planned and how are they associated with gaming, or hardware or technology? Pics or it didn't happen! Here are the rules:

We want YOUR costume and not some image you stole off Google image search. That means you are going to need to hold up a piece of paper that says "PCPer" or "PC Perspective" on when you have your snapshot taken. This prove to us that you actually read this before the photo was taken!

You can submit your entry in a few ways, all of which are equally judged.

That's it! We will accept entries starting today and going through November 3rd (to allow for the weekend parties) so get to planning and get creative! We'll pick a few of our favorites to showcase in a news post announcing the winner then ship the hardware to our favorite. Good luck!

A huge thanks goes to Corsair for the massive amount of hardware they provided for this contest and also to Gigabyte for the Z87X-OC motherboard. If you want, you might even get bonus points if you include Corsair and Gigabyte in your entry somehow...

Meh. I'm not even going to think about trying for this one. There will inevitably be the person who tricks out a transformer car into a two-story costume, or a Gordan Freeman costume with fully functioning hazard suit, crowbar, and gravity gun that works like the old Jonny Astro kit, so that he can do gravity gun tricks with balloons...

So in other words the person that is rich and can easily buy this set up on his own, goes and out of just wanting to win spends a lot of money probably wins, while some poor slob who could use a setup like that can't spend all that money because it goes foe those extras like food for his kids and rent so their not sleeping on a park bench has basically no shot. In my opinion its a lousy idea for contest.

PC Per Girl costume: $2.99 on clearance bought today Nov 1 at local store. Masks were 50 cents each on the clearance aisle.

PC Per Girl utility pouch: $0.00 The nice Corsair pouch that came from the power supply I bought awhile back.

Ultra High Tech sidekick 7-Fiddy's costume: $0.00 The box from my Corsair HX 750 power supply bought about 4 years ago. I really like to keep all my boxes tidy so it kind of stung that I had to cut the box to make his costume but if I guess "you have risk it to get the biscuit."
Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083456/quotes

Labels and PC Per Girl logo: $0.00. Made in paint and some elbow grease. Well, actually, if you include the printer ink that probably cost $5 bajillion dollars/gallon, ugh, I don't want to think about printer ink, lol.

Total I spent today for this costume: about 4 bucks + tax.

Halloween spirit for less than 5 bucks!

Happy Holidays all!
xoxoxo

PC Per Girl and her ferocious sidekick 7-Fiddy! ^^

PS: if someone knows how to post the pictures here I would really appreciate it!

Hello Guys!
Finally i have my pic about what we can call almost costume :) We don't celebrate Halloween here so i don't have any costume, but at least not trying to sell google crap. I call it Geek Reaper, and well it looked more badass in my head. :) The main focus is on the PSU what is a real reaper, when it puffed killed my motherboard too. So since we don't celebrate halloween this is just for you. http://i.imgur.com/2Ks7QLP.jpg